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Food Poisoning in the Old West
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Young Wayne Blazed a Big Trail
The Big Trail (1930) succeeded in recreating, from the widest vistas to the smallest details, the saga of those men, women and children who crossed...
Iron Man Plays Gunslinger?
Word is out that Robert Downey Jr., fresh from his success as Tony Stark in the summer blockbuster Iron Man, may be cast in the Brian Grazer/Ron...
Preservation: Harvey House is History
Harvey House is History In January, we wrote about ongoing efforts to save the historic Havasu Harvey House in Seligman, Arizona. Today, the circa...
Hang ’em High and Fast
Thanks to an inquiry from my electrician friend Rob Brown of Montrose, Colorado, I am treating you to a medical discussion of Old West hangings....
Remember the Baca-Cowboy War?
For most of his life, Henry Martinez had no idea he was part of history. He grew up in the western New Mexico town of Reserve, population 336 today,...
Riding Fence
Anxiety welled within me when I saw a welcoming committee of border patrolmen outside of the ranch that we were about to film in Sasabe, Arizona,...
The Saddle King’s Mor-Do Ranch
Buffalo and longhorn cattle are icons of the American West. But then so are boots, saddles, chaps, spurs and guns, and for Mort and Donna Fleischer,...
Dubois, Wyoming
The 1880s settlers in Never Sweat, Wyoming, enjoyed the warm, dry winds that flowed across town and the great Wind River. Hunters and trappers,...
Must-Ride National Parks
I’ve always wanted to explore Bryce Canyon National Park. Recently, I was fortunate to be guided by “The Kid,” a black Quarter Horse who’s ridden...
New Kid on the Block
El Paso, Texas, is a city with a past—far more of a past than most communities in the West can claim. It’s belonged to three countries and has a...
The Great Race of Mercy
The place was Nome, Alaska. Dr. Curtis Welch waited anxiously for his prayers to be answered in the early morning hours of February 2, 1925....